pleasure principle
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It won’t if we adopt a Mozartean pleasure principle that is substantive, not superficial.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
I find myself increasingly committed to the pleasure principle — first formulated by John Dryden in 1668.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2020
The excessive, destabilising bit of the pleasure principle that’s channelling the death drive.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 24, 2019
When it comes to eating, I believe in Freud’s pleasure principle: I avoid all pain.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2019
The transition from the pleasure principle to that of fact is the most important advance in the development of the ego.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
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